diff --git a/tinygrad/utils.py b/tinygrad/utils.py
index bbef87f6ee..61f57224ea 100644
--- a/tinygrad/utils.py
+++ b/tinygrad/utils.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ def fetch_mnist():
   def fetch(url):
     import requests, gzip, os, hashlib, numpy
     fp = os.path.join("/tmp", hashlib.md5(url.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest())
-    if not os.path.isfile(fp):
+    if os.path.isfile(fp):
       with open(fp, "rb") as f:
         dat = f.read()
     else: